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Craignarget Burn
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Craignarget Burn
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Nether Croft
Canmore ID 175591
Site Number NX25SE 46
NGR NX 2734 5194
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/175591
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Mochrum
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SE 46 273 519
"A small field of arable land and one enclosure of rough rocky pasture on the farm of Garheugh. On the arable field of the ruins of some houses, corn kiln, garden etc."
Name Book 1850
A farmstead comprising four unroofed buildings, one of which has an outshot, and one enclosure, a Corn Kiln and a small field-system, which is partly marked by pecked lines and annotated Old Wall and Old Fence, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 24). One unroofed building and one enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 November 1999
Field Visit (1 January 2010 - 1 October 2010)
SRP field reconnaissance and mapping
Srp Note (4 July 2011)
The farmstead named Nether Croft on the First Edition map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 24) occupies a broad knoll on the S side of the Craignarget Burn. A rectangular stone-walled building, 5.20m x 8.60m, with a single entrance and an oushot to the NE, is attached to an oval enclosure with an entrance on its NW side. Opposite the building and on the same alignment is a two compartment structure, 5.80 x 7.00m, with two entrances on the W face. A corn kiln lies 7.00m S and to the NE are two smaller stone-walled single-entranced structures.
The farmstead is enclosed by a head dyke head which contains some short lengths of dyke, small clearance cairns and areas of infield. On its NE edge the head dyke overlies an earlier wall which runs outwith but parallel to the enclosure with a small rectangular structure, probably a pen or bucht and built at its S terminus. The head dyke is bisected by a later stone dyke which appears on the OS First edition map of 1850.
To the S the head dyke joins a discontinuous field system containing short stretches of dyke and small cairns which extend S to the main Garheugh march dyke.
